Profile optimization
Categories, services, description, hours, attributes and contact details set up fully and accurately.
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Get found on Google Maps by customers nearby.
Smart Digital Rank optimizes and manages Google Business Profiles, formerly called Google My Business, for local businesses. We set up your profile properly, keep it active and help you build the reviews that move you up the map results.
Google My Business management
For local businesses, the map is the new homepage.
Many customers decide who to call without ever visiting your website.
When someone searches for a service nearby, Google usually shows a map with three businesses at the top. That small box gets a huge share of the calls, direction requests and website visits for local searches. Being in it, or not, can make a real difference to how busy your phone is.
Your Google Business Profile, which many people still call Google My Business, is what decides whether you appear there. Google looks at three broad things: how relevant your profile is to the search, how close you are to the person searching and how prominent your business appears, which includes reviews and activity. Distance you cannot change. Relevance and prominence you can.
We start with an audit of your profile and your competitors'. Then we fix the basics many businesses get wrong: the right primary and secondary categories, a complete list of services, accurate hours, a description that explains what you do, and consistent name, address and phone details across the web.
After that, we keep your profile active. We add good photos, publish regular updates and offers, answer common customer questions and help you set up a simple process for asking happy customers for reviews. We also help you respond to reviews, good and bad, in a way that builds trust with people reading them later.
We follow Google's guidelines strictly. That means no fake reviews, no keyword-stuffed business names and no virtual office addresses, because shortcuts like these can get a profile suspended.
Your profile and your website should support each other. We link your profile to a relevant page rather than just the homepage, make sure the services and areas on your website match your profile, and add local business schema so search engines can connect the two. For businesses with several branches, each location gets its own page and its own profile.
What our profile management includes
Everything your profile needs to win local searches.
One-off optimization or ongoing monthly management, depending on how competitive your area is.
Photos and updates
Regular photos and posts about offers, news and services that keep your profile fresh.
↗Review strategy
A simple process for asking customers for reviews, plus help responding to every review professionally.
↗Local citations
Consistent business details across directories and data sources that Google checks.
↗Multi-location profiles
Setup and management of separate profiles for each branch, with matching location pages on your website.
↗Performance tracking
Monthly reporting on searches, calls, direction requests and website clicks from your profile.
↗How we work
From audit to a stronger map presence.
Profile fixes can improve visibility within weeks. Reviews and regular activity build prominence over months.
Audit
We review your profile, reviews and competitors and check your listings across the web.
Optimize
We fix categories, services, details and photos, and clean up inconsistent listings.
Activate
We publish regular updates and launch a review request process with your team.
Report
We track calls, directions and visits from your profile and adjust the plan each month.
What success looks like
More calls and visits from local searches.
Frequently asked questionsGoogle Business Profile questions,
Google Business Profile questions,
answered.
What local business owners ask about Google Maps visibility.
Yes. Google renamed Google My Business to Google Business Profile. It is the same free listing that appears in Google Search and Maps.
Profile fixes can make a difference within a few weeks. Building reviews and authority takes longer, and results depend on how competitive your area is.
We help you ask real customers for reviews at the right time and make it easy for them. We never buy, fake or incentivize reviews, which breaks Google's rules.
We help you understand why, fix anything that breaks Google's guidelines and submit a reinstatement request with the right evidence.
Yes, if each location has staff and serves customers in person. Each gets its own profile and ideally its own page on your website.
Yes. Businesses that visit customers, such as plumbers or cleaners, can hide their address and show the areas they serve instead.
Yes, calmly and helpfully. A thoughtful reply shows future customers how you handle problems, which often matters more than the review itself.
Regular posts keep your profile active and give customers useful, current information such as offers, events and new services. They are one part of a healthy profile, alongside complete details, good photos and a steady flow of reviews.